👩‍💻IW Weekly #30: $10,000 Bounty, Bypassing Filtration, DDoS Attack, Fuzzing for SQL Injection, Recon Tools, etc.

👩‍💻IW Weekly #30: $10,000 Bounty, Bypassing Filtration, DDoS Attack, Fuzzing for SQL Injection, Recon Tools, etc.
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GitHub rewarded $10,000 to Saajan Bhujel for bypassing filtration of HTML tags in GitHub’s new feature.

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Welcome to the #IWWeekly30 - the Monday newsletter that brings the best in Infosec straight to your inbox.

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Coming back to today's NL, here are our top picks for this week: 7 articles, 6 Threads, 5 videos, 2 Github repos and tools, 1 job alert to help you maximize the benefit from this newsletter and take a massive jump ahead in your career.

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📝 7 Infosec Articles (5+ 2 beginner-friendly)

#1 Do you know captcha functionalities can lead to great bugs? @Lokesh Kumar found one on Facebook. Read this to find out.

#2 Threat research report from Redhut labs covers thousands of unsecured Kubernetes Clusters exposed on the internet.

#3 Great bypasses lead to amazing bounties. GitHub rewarded $10,000 to Saajan Bhujel for bypassing filtration of HTML tags in GitHub’s new feature.

#4 Informative article on DDoS attack vector: TCP middlebox reflection by Apnic.

#5 Read this insightful article to find how Kuldeep Pandya did a second order XXE exploitation.

Beginner-friendly -

#1 Do you want to dive into Android pentesting? Then read this article by Grigoris Papoutsis.

#2 Check this article to deep dive into CSP and its bypasses. Written by Shubham Chaskar.

#1 Take a look into this great thread by Shashank containing a curated list of Smart Contract and Blockchain security blogs.

#2 Osint For All published a thread containing a list of 10 Twitter analysis tools to optimize your search and digital investigation.

#3 Renniepak posted about his recent findings that leaked all users’ password reset links.

#4 Nagli shared his tips about doing fuzzing for SQL injection.

Beginner-friendly -

#1 Read this thread by Intigriti to find amazing Recon tools.

#2 Are you venturing into mobile application pentesting? Then checkout this thread by Nitin that contains frequently used tools that can upskill your game.

📽️ 5 Insightful Videos (3 + 2 beginner-friendly)

#1 Sometimes passwords are left out in the open making the life of a threat actor easier. Watch @_JohnHammond setup a vulnerable active directory environment and exploit it to find default credentials.

#2 @Sandy1sm talks about securing open source software at @nullcon. You’ll learn about the approach to doing bug bounty on OSS and find a few examples on @Hacker0x01.

#3 Ever used nuclei in your reconnaissance? It’s now available as a burpsuite plugin. Check out this descriptive video on the plugin by @pdiscoveryio.

Beginner-friendly -

#1 Looking to get a new cybersecurity job? Watch this video by @thecybermentor to find some useful tips on landing a great job.

#2 Watch @NahamSec video on attack surface management to find every single domain a company has ever owned.

⚒️ 2 Github repositories & Tools

#1 Checkout this latest release of subfinder by the @pdiscoveryio team.

#2 Autodeploy is a tool written in bash which allows you to synchronize config files, maintain same version of tools, etc. across multiple machines by @GrahamHelton3.

💰1 Job Alert

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